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2023 PAST EVENTS
Event with Ellen Ann Fentress + Katy Simpson Smith
Saturday, December 23rd | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Ellen Ann Fentress signs, THE STEPS WE TAKE. Ellen Ann Fentress is a veteran writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She’s also a seasoned southern woman, specifically a white Mississippi one. “Women do a lot for free, no matter the era, no matter the location,” she observes in The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning. As a good southern woman, Fentress felt a calling to help others. As a teenager, she volunteered as a March of Dimes quarter collector and sang hymns at a soup-and-salvation homeless shelter... Read More... 
Katy Simpson Smith signs, THE WEEDS. A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own... Read More...
Event with Robert St. John + Anthony Thaxton
Saturday, December 23rd | 1:00pm
Signing at 1:00pm
Robert St. John signs, MISSISSIPPI MORNINGS. Anthony Thaxton signs, WALTER ANDERSON. There is no doubt that Robert St. John is a breakfast guy. Between running his seven restaurants, publishing a weekly syndicated column, guiding dozens of groups through Europe every spring and fall, and working with his charity Extra Table, somehow Robert has found the time to publish his thirteenth book, Mississippi Mornings (it must be all those fantastic breakfasts!)... Read More...
Event with Nash Nunnery + Marshall Ramsey + Rick Cleveland
Thursday, December 21st | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Nash Nunnery + Marshall Ramsey sign, MAGNOLIA GRIDIRON CATHEDRALS. Nothing gets the blood pumping in Mississippi cities and towns quite like high school football, and first-time Mississippi author Nash Nunnery is ready to take you on a guided tour of 47 legendary high school football stadiums around the state that are truly worthy of being called hallowed ground. In Magnolia Gridiron Cathedrals, illustrated by Marshall Ramsey, the veteran sports journalist doesn't just give you the who, what, when, and where... Read More... 
Rick Cleveland signs, THE MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL BOOK. Veteran sportswriter Rick Cleveland and writer/publisher Neil White have partnered to produce a new coffee-table book, The Mississippi Football Book. Part narrative, part encyclopedia, and part Guinness Book of World Records, The Mississippi Football Book features the greatest teams, coaches, and players from Mississippi’s remarkable football past — and present. Rick Cleveland, the most decorated sportswriter in Mississippi history, wrote in his introduction... Read More...
Event with Michael Farris Smith
Wednesday, December 20th | 1:00pm
Signing at 1:00pm
Michael Farris Smith signs, SALVAGE THIS WORLD. There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley. In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she sows the seeds of violence... Read More... 
Matthew Guinn signs, THE SCRIBE. On the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Cotton Exposition, disgraced former detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city to track a serial murderer who seems to be targeting its wealthiest black entrepreneurs. The killer's method is both strange and unusually gruesome: on each victim's body, a letter of the alphabet is inscribed. Intent on shielding the city's celebration of New South industry, its most prominent businessmen the Ring pressure Canby to tie up the case... Read More... 
Wesley Shoop signs, MISSISSIPPI'S NATURAL HERITAGE. Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included species, Mississippi's Natural Heritage is the first book of its kind dedicated to Mississippi's natural world. Photographer Wesley L. Shoop spent years photographing a vast array of invertebrates, fossils, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, plants, and fungi, and the book features a section dedicated to each group... Read More...
Event with James Herring
Tuesday, December 19th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00PM
James Herring signs, THE SWITCHER. The son of passionate conservative Democrats, Jim Herring ultimately became the only state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party to serve previously on the Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee. Given his family’s deep Democratic roots, this proved quite a journey! Jim’s father was a Mississippi state senator. His father-in-law’s college roommate was a future U.S. senator, Jim Eastland, and the two men were best friends for life... Read More...
Event with Thomas Wiley + Wesley Shoop
Monday, December 18th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Thomas Wiley signs, PUSHMATAHA. On the morning of September 27, 1830, on the banks of a small stream in present day Noxubee County, Mississippi, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed which resulted in the transfer of all remaining Choctaw land east of the Mississippi to the United States. Within two years, removal of the Choctaws to their new home in Oklahoma began. Of the sixteen thousand men, women, and children who made the six-hundred-mile journey... Read More...
Wesley Shoop signs, MISSISSIPPI'S NATURAL HERITAGE. Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included species, Mississippi's Natural Heritage is the first book of its kind dedicated to Mississippi's natural world. Photographer Wesley L. Shoop spent years photographing a vast array of invertebrates, fossils, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, plants, and fungi, and the book features a section dedicated to each group... Read More...
Storytime with Diane Pleasant
Saturday, December 16th | 2:00pm
Signing at 2:00pm
Diane Pleasant signs, THE CREEPY CREEK CHORUS. Join us in "The Creepy Creek Chorus" where animals speak, a deception unfolds and life lessons are discovered. Mr. Frog, Miss Spider and Mr. Grasshopper are coaxed to split up their musical endeavors with influence from an outside source. Arguing breaks up our diverse friends but in this adventure they learn that love is the glue that holds them together. Illustrated by the author in bright colors that stir the imagination, this adventure will captivate young readers and guide them through essential life lessons... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Saturday, December 16th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with John Ramsey Miller
Saturday, December 16th | 11:00
Signing at 11:00
John Ramsey Miller signs, MCCARTY JEWELRY. The 124 page coffee table book isolates and spotlights the art of these jewelry makers. Author, John Ramsey Miller has captured the beauty of the jewelry they produced from 1948-2015. Miller spent eight months photographing the jewelry and writing the text of this volume, which follows the book Miller produced on the pottery of the McCartys in 2016 that was created over the course of their remarkable career. Miller had a close relationship with the couple that began in the 1970s.. Read More...
Event with Robert St. John + Anthony Thaxton
Saturday, December 16th | 10:00am
Signing at 10:00am
Robert St. John signs, MISSISSIPPI MORNINGS. Anthony Thaxton signs, WALTER ANDERSON. There is no doubt that Robert St. John is a breakfast guy. Between running his seven restaurants, publishing a weekly syndicated column, guiding dozens of groups through Europe every spring and fall, and working with his charity Extra Table, somehow Robert has found the time to publish his thirteenth book, Mississippi Mornings (it must be all those fantastic breakfasts!)... Read More...
Event with Steve Robertson
Friday, December 15th | 12:00pm
Signing at 12:00pm
Steve Robertson signs, WHEN THE BOTTOM FALLS. In When the Bottom Falls, Steve recounts his path from drug-addicted convicted felon to best-selling author. With over 30 years of recovery under his belt, Steve shares a work of experience, strength, and hope in an attempt to help the still-suffering addict and those who love them. Addiction comes in many forms. The disease works to break down the host and leaves a path of destruction that most never recover from... Read More...
Event with Judy Turner + Sydney Thaxton
Tuesday, December 12th | 4:00 to 6:00
Signing begins at 4pm
Judy Turner + Sydney Thaxton sign, THE ADVENTURES OF RUDY THE DISTRACTED DOG. Follow the adventures of Rudy the Distracted Dog who wants to do the right thing but finds so many interesting diversions along the way. If you have a young child with ADHD, then this book with its colorful characters will speak to their challenge of keeping their attention on things that need to be done... Read More...
Event with Valencia Lloyd
Monday, December 11th | 5:00pm
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30
Valencia Lloyd signs, LOVE AT SUKKOT Issa Chambers is the executive assistant for the richest black man in Jackson, Mississippi. She's a hard worker, but she's given up on finding a faithful, Yah-fearing man. Dominik Yates is a member of the hated Abrahamic Elites, looking for a place to call home. When fate brings them together at the Feast of Tabernacles, things are electric between them. But with Issa's fear of the Abrahamic Elites and Dom's desire to keep his head down and avoid women, the odds seem stacked against their chances... Read More...
Event with Elizabeth Crook
Thursday, December 7th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Elizabeth Crook signs, THE MADSTONE. With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee vengeful outlaws, even as an unlikely love blossoms, in "a brilliant, beautiful page-turner" (Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Double Blind).Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger... Read More...
Event with Elizabeth Varon
Tuesday, December 5th | 5:30
Reading at 5:30pm | Signing to follow
Elizabeth Varon signs, LONGSTREET. An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle.... Read More...
Event with Christina Dent
Saturday, December 2nd | 2:00
Signing at 2:00pm
Christina Dent signs, CURIOUS: A FOSTER MOM'S DISCOVERY OF AN UNEXPECTED SOLUTION TO DRUGS AND ADDICTION. Curious is the story of Christina Dent's learning journey after a life-changing experience with the mother of her foster son sparks curiosity about the best way to reduce harm from drugs. With addiction touching many families and potent drugs available almost everywhere, better solutions are needed. Curious offers one. Christina was born, raised, and homeschooled in a conservative Christian home in Mississippi. The proverbial good girl, she stayed away from drugs and earned a degree in Bible before leading ministries at her church. She's the last person you might think would give a TEDx Talk... Read More...
Event with Felecia Marshall
Monday, November 27th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Felecia Marshall signs, GRANT ME JUSTICE. On March 14, 2017, everything about Felecia Marshall's life as she knew it changed when her daughter Alexia was murdered. At the time, it seemed like a pit that she would never be able to ascend. But God! Reflecting on, and growing from, this experience, she penned the book Grant Me Justice and founded Grant Me Justice: A Voice for the Victim, where she has been given the privilege of connecting with women worldwide who have lost their children to violence.... Read More...
Event with Robert St. John
Saturday, November 25th | 12:00pm
Signing at 12:00pm
Robert St. John signs, MISSISSIPPI MORNINGS There is no doubt that Robert St. John is a breakfast guy. Between running his seven restaurants, publishing a weekly syndicated column, guiding dozens of groups through Europe every spring and fall, and working with his charity Extra Table, somehow Robert has found the time to publish his thirteenth book, Mississippi Mornings (it must be all those fantastic breakfasts!).... Read More...
Event with Dale Gray
Friday, November 24th | 12:30pm
Signing at 12:30pm
Dale Gray signs, SOUTH OF SOMEWHEREE. South of Somewhere is a unique culinary tour of beloved food blogger Dale Gray’s life to date. Her journey goes way back to South Africa on the outskirts of Cape Town. Dale grew up with a close-knit family who has resided in her hometown for generations, but it’s almost impossible to encapsulate her heritage in a few words. She describes the people of South Africa as a product of centuries of colonization, enslavement, apartheid, and intermarriage between people from Asia, Africa, and Europe—now compromising a colorful blend of Eastern, Western, and African heritage... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Friday, November 24th | 11:00am
Signing at 11:00am
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with Sidney Thompson
Saturday, November 18th | 2:00pm
Signing at 2:00pm
Sidney Thompson signs, THE FORSAKEN AND THE DEAD All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defining hubris, but few rise from the ashes to achieve greater heights. In 1884 Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was arrested for murder and placed among his own prisoners in Hell on the Border, the infamous federal jail in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It was the single greatest setback of his illustrious career, but it wouldn’t be his last mistake or trial by fire... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Saturday, November 18th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with Rick Cleveland + Neil White
Friday, November 17th 2023 | 4:30pm
Signing at 4:30 | Reading at 5:00
Rick Cleveland + Neil White sign and discuss, THE MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL BOOK. Veteran sportswriter Rick Cleveland and writer/publisher Neil White have partnered to produce a new coffee-table book, The Mississippi Football Book. Part narrative, part encyclopedia, and part Guinness Book of World Records, The Mississippi Football Book features the greatest teams, coaches, and players from Mississippi’s remarkable football past — and present. Rick Cleveland, the most decorated sportswriter in Mississippi history, wrote in his introduction... Read More...
Event with Ellen Ann Fentress + Lauren Rhoades
Thursday, November 16th 2023 | 5:00pm
Signing begins at 5:00pm
Ellen Ann Fentress + Lauren Rhoades discuss, THE STEPS WE TAKE. Ellen Ann Fentress is a veteran writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She’s also a seasoned southern woman, specifically a white Mississippi one. “Women do a lot for free, no matter the era, no matter the location,” she observes in The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning. As a good southern woman, Fentress felt a calling to help others. As a teenager, she volunteered as a March of Dimes quarter collector and sang hymns at a soup-and-salvation homeless shelter... Read More...
Event with Grace Elizabeth Hale
Wednesday, November 15th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Grace Elizabeth Hale signs, IN THE PINES. In this “courageous and compelling … essential and critically important” book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff—a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America... Read More...
Event with Tom Clavin
Tuesday, November 14th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Tom Clavin signs, THE LAST OUTLAWS. The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves, before graduating to robbing banks and trains... Read More...
Event with Susan Cleland + Sherye Green
Thursday, November 9th 2023 | 5:00pm
Signing begins at 5:00pm
Susan Cleland + Sherye Green sign, MISSION VIGILANT. Susan Cleland found herself on a new life path, one she would never have willingly taken, following the loss of her Air Force veteran son, Michael Ryan Vinson, on June 9, 2019. As a result of this devastating tragedy, Susan has made it her mission to share the lessons God taught her in the wake of Michael's death. Even though Susan and her family will never fully recover from the emotional wounds caused by grief and deep sorrow, she offers encouragement, hope, and purpose to other survivors of veteran suicide... Read More...
Event with Jesmyn Ward + Margaret McMullan
Saturday, November 4th | 2:00
This event will take place at Millsaps College
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex | Recital Hall 
Jesmyn Ward discusses, LET US DESCEND. Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother... Read More...
Event with Kacey Kowars
Thursday, November 2nd | 4:00pm
Event begins at 4:00pm | Reading to follow
Kacey Kowars signs, CHASING THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT A literary biography of the life of Walter Tevis; author of the Queen's Gambit, The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Color of Money among others... Read More...
Event with Sarah Francis Hardy
Saturday, October 21st | 10:30
Signing + Storytime at 10:30AM
Sarah Frances Hardy signs, ONE MISSISSIPPI. Based on “One Mississippi,” the newly-proclaimed official state song of Mississippi, by award-winning performer Steve Azar, and illustrated by award-winning children’s book author Sarah Frances Hardy.... Read More...
Event with Wesley L. Shoop
Saturday, October 14th | 2:00
Signing at 2:00pm
Wesley L. Shoop signs, Mississippi's Natural Heritage. Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included species, Mississippi's Natural Heritage is the first book of its kind dedicated to Mississippi's natural world. Photographer Wesley L. Shoop spent years photographing a vast array of invertebrates, fossils, amphibians and reptiles, birds, mammals, plants, and fungi, and the book features a section dedicated to each group... Read More...
Event with Ann Dickerson
Saturday, October 14th | 10:30
Signing + Storytime at 10:30AM
Ann Dickerson signs, HALLOWEEN MAGIC. Ann Dickerson has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Southern Miss and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Mississippi College. She taught English before her children were born. Halloween Magic began in the early 2000s as letters in installments mailed to out of state grandchildren. For the grandchildren living in the Jackson area, she visited their kindergarten class and presented the story with props. The story reflects Ann’s own fond childhood memories when Halloween was a simpler... Read More...
Event with Loki Mulholland + Joan Truampuer Mulholland
Tuesday, October 10th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Loki Mulholland and Joan Truampuer Mulholland sign, GET BACK TO THE COUNTER. Her Freedom Rider mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. By the time she was 23 years old, Joan participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations. From her cell on death row to the infamous Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, Joan helped change the world. Through highs and lows, victory and death, her story is captured in seven core principles we all can harness to get back to the counter no matter how many times life pulls us off... Read More...
Event with Wyatt Waters
Saturday, October 7th | 12:00
Signing at 12:00pm
Wyatt Waters signs, THE 2024 CALENDAR. Wyatt’s 2024 calendar, titled "Leaping Forward", features 13 images of recent, unpublished paintings, sized to fit a standard 16” x 22” frame with a 3” mat. Each calendar is printed on textured paper – true to the feel of watercolor paper - and signed by Wyatt... Read More...
Event with Ron Rash
Friday, September 29th 2023 | 5:00
This event will take place at The Eudora Welty House
Ron Rash signs, THE CARETAKER. It’s 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob’s wife, Naomi, as well... Read More...
Event with Judith Reifsteck
Thursday, September 28th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Judith Reifsteck signs, MEMORIED AND STORIED. A meaningful form of racial justice advocacy leading to social change through rituals of remembrance. Memoried and Storied moves beyond the outrage and horror of Post-Civil War lynchings by sharing details about the victims' lives, saying their names, and bringing compassion and healing to their memory through multi-racial, multi-generational, community-led rituals of remembrance. Full-color photos enhance the narrative depicting historical monuments, events, people of the communities, and families of the victims... Read More...
Event with Rick Cleveland + Neil White
Saturday, September 23rd 2023 | 12:00pm
Signing at 12pm
Rick Cleveland + Neil White sign, THE MISSISSIPPI FOOTBALL BOOK. Veteran sportswriter Rick Cleveland and writer/publisher Neil White have partnered to produce a new coffee-table book, The Mississippi Football Book. Part narrative, part encyclopedia, and part Guinness Book of World Records, The Mississippi Football Book features the greatest teams, coaches, and players from Mississippi’s remarkable football past — and present. Rick Cleveland, the most decorated sportswriter in Mississippi history, wrote in his introduction... Read More...
Event with Robert P. Jones
Tuesday, September 19th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Robert P. Jones signs, THE HIDDEN ROOTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY. Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy. Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged... Read More...
Event with Nyani Nkrumah
Thursday, September 14th | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Nyani Nkrumah signs, WADE IN THE WATER. Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker’s classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s... Read More...
Event with E.R. Lutken
Tuesday, September 12th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
E.R. Lutken signs, A THOUSAND PLACES LEFT BEHIND. TA veteran's harrowing remembrance of jungle warfare and intelligence operations Born and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920–2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the British V Force, then the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services and precursor to the CIA) after he volunteered for reconnaissance missions behind Japanese lines... Read More...
Event with Jason Garbo
Saturday, September 9th 2023 | 2:00pm
Signing at 2pm
Jason Garbo signs, HAMMERHEAD. No one can dispute that the fentanyl and heroin crisis in the United States is out of control, with the majority of illegal narcotics flooding across the southern border. In this fast-moving thriller, the President sends special operators into Mexico to apprehend the head of one of Mexico's largest cartel's. The operation is code named Hammerhead. FBI agent Nick Bradshaw is thrust into a key operational role as he and American special operators race to stop this global threat... Read More...
Saturday, September 2nd 2023
Event with Phyllis R. Dixon
Saturday, August 26th 2023 | 12:00
Signing at 12pm
Phyllis R. Dixon signs, INTERMISSION. As glittering as their name, The Diamonds were on the brink of 1990s pop music stardom—until betrayal tore them apart. Now these four very different women are getting a second shot at success. But will reuniting mend their rift—or will lasting secrets, unspoken betrayals, new temptations, and the hard-knocks of today’s music industry destroy them, and their dreams, for good?... Read More...
Event with Michael Oher
Monday, August 14th 2023 | 5:00
Signing begins 5pm to 6pm
Michael Oher signs, When Your Back's Against the Wall. The NFL champion whose life inspired the hit movie The Blind Side is back with an inspiring and motivating book on overcoming any obstacle, no matter how tough the odds. Millions of people became part of Michael Oher’s story when they watched a version of him on the big screen; read his memoir, I Beat the Odds; or cheered him on from the stands. After speaking to so many of them over the years, Oher knows that more than anything, people want to believe great things can happen... Read More...
Event with Ellen Ann Fentress
Thursday, August 10th 2023 | 4:30
Signing at 4:30pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Ellen Ann Fentress signs, THE STEPS WE TAKE. Ellen Ann Fentress is a veteran writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She’s also a seasoned southern woman, specifically a white Mississippi one. “Women do a lot for free, no matter the era, no matter the location,” she observes in The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning. As a good southern woman, Fentress felt a calling to help others... Read More...
Event with J. Stephen Beam
Tuesday, August 8th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
J. Stephen Beam signs, THE DEATH LETTER. A humble, unassuming war hero from a tiny town in northeast Mississippi, Jesse Travis has dealt with a lot in his short life, including the untimely death of his beloved parents in a fatal automobile crash. What has Jesse perplexed is that no one even talks any more about his wife, Mary, who went missing more than a year ago. Once Jesse himself was cleared of the crime by state investigators and the local sheriff, it’s as if Mary never existed... Read More...
Event with Nash Nunnery
Saturday, August 5th 2023 | 2:00
Signing begins at 2pm
Nash Nunnery signs, MAGNOLIA GRIDIRON CATHEDRALS. Nothing gets the blood pumping in Mississippi cities and towns quite like high school football, and first-time Mississippi author Nash Nunnery is ready to take you on a guided tour of 47 legendary high school football stadiums around the state that are truly worthy of being called hallowed ground. In Magnolia Gridiron Cathedrals, the veteran sports journalist doesn't just give you the who, what, when, and where -- Nash puts you at the fifty-yard-line... Read More...
Event with Zelda Lockhart
Tuesday, July 18th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Zelda Lockhart signs, TRINITY. Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, “Lord Jesus, if that ain’t the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.” Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors’ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi’s red clay tobacco fields... Read More...
Event with Elizabeth Boyd
Tuesday, July 11th 2023 | 5:00
Signing at 5:00pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Elizabeth Boyd signs, SOUTHERN BEAUTY. Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism. In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for ... Read More...
Event with C.E. O'Banion
Saturday, July 8th 2023 | 12:00
Signing at 12pm
C.E. O'Banion signs, CHINESE NEW YEAR. In the twilight of the twenty-first century, Alton B. Tapscott battles hurricanes, his children, the trappings of polite society, organized religion, and the inescapable control of technology - his only weapons being his cat, a pair of prescription arthritic socks, and his new WiFi-enabled hearing aide. With humor and heart, Chinese New Year details the life of an average American Hero of a certain age as he catches an Uber, enters an assisted living facility, sees a baseball... Read More...
Event with Susan Cushman
Saturday, June 24th 2023
Signing at 2pm | Discussion at 2:30pm
Susan Cushman and contributors Christa Allan, Averyell Kessler, and Nancy Dorman-Hickson discuss ALL NIGHT, ALL DAY. There is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is “crossing over.” It can be heartbreaking, of course, but also very holy and beautiful. Some of the pieces in this collection share the experience of personal loss when a loved one dies. Often the presence of an angel or another mystical experience is shared. But not only in death—there are also stories here of the way the mystical world interacts with us in daily life. And not only angels, but also mothers, fathers, sisters... Read More...
Event with Harrison Scott Key
Saturday, June 17th 2023 | 1:00
Signing at 1:00pm | Reading at 2:00pm
Harrison Scott Key signs, HOW TO STAY MARRIED.  From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells the hilarious, shocking, and spiritually profound story of one man’s journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage. One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”—is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking action of How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” ... Read More...
Event with Patrick Dean
Tuesday, June 13th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Patrick Dean and Jeff Good discuss, NATURE'S MESSENGER. A dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesby—who predated John James Audubon by nearly a century— and his influence on how we understand American wildlife. In 1722, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in Charles Town in the Carolina colony. Over the next four years, this young naturalist made history as he explored deep into America’s natural wonders, collecting and drawing plants and animals which had never been seen back in the Old World... Read More...
Event with Neilson Hubbard
Thursday, June 8th 2023
Signing at 4:30pm
Neilson Hubbard signs, THE AMERICAN SOUTH. The American South is a collection of over 80 photographs, taken across the southern United States. A powerful story is shown through the faces and characters of the area.... Read More...
Event with James H. Herring
Tuesday, June 6th 2023
Signing at 4:30pm | Reading at 5:30pm
James H. Herring signs, THE SWITCHER. The son of passionate conservative Democrats, Jim Herring ultimately became the only state chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party to serve previously on the Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee. Given his family’s deep Democratic roots, this proved quite a journey! Jim’s father was a Mississippi state senator. His father-in-law’s college roommate was a future U.S. senator, Jim Eastland, and the two men were best friends for life.... Read More...
Event with Carolyn Brown
Monday, June 5th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Carolyn J. Brown and Carla S. Wall discuss, TO DANCE, TO LIVE. A moving biography of a dancer, teacher, and arts patron recognized internationally for her efforts in dance education and for bringing world-class ballet to Mississippi. Thalia Mara’s story spans the history of dance in the twentieth century and the rise of the arts in her adopted city of Jackson, Mississippi. As an adolescent Mara (1911–2003) studied with renowned Russian teacher Adolph Bolm, who recommended she go at age sixteen to Paris for further study... Read More...
Event with Wright Thompson
Thursday, June 1st 2023
6pm for VIP | 7pm for general admission
Books & Bourbon at THE CEDARS co-hosted by Jackson Friends of the Library with hors d'oeuvres from Elvie's 
Wright Thompson discusses PAPPYLAND. The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of the Pappy Van Winkle distillery, now is thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon. His grandfather presided... Read More...
Event with A. J. Wolfe
Saturday, May 20th 2023
Signing at 12pm
A. J. Wolfe signs, THE AETHER CHRONICLES: REBELLIUM. Family isn’t always defined by blood, but it means everything to eighteen-year-old Natalia Rhys—especially after her brother was ripped away from her. With no power to make a difference, there’s nothing she can do… Unless the powerless become the powerful. Natalia has grown up in the oppressed sectors of Araedia, avoiding the brainwashed soldiers of the tyrannical President Vayne Averie. Vayne rules the sectors with fear and suppression as he searches for Elementals—individuals who can harness the power of one of the four elements... Read More...
Event with Allie Stuart Povall
This Event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled!
Allie Stuart Povall signs, UNION WARRIORS AT SUNSET. Ulysses S. Grant was appointed general-in-chief of the U.S. Army after the Civil War and served two terms as president. His former subordinates, Philip Henry Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman, also served as generals-in-chief—Sherman indulging his passion for young women until his death. Two other former generals ran for president, one against his old commander, Grant. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the hero of Gettysburg... Read More...
Event with Robert Hitt Neill
This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled!
Robert Hitt Neill signs, THE BOOK OF BETSY. After a three-decade career of writing humorous, nostalgic books, stories, articles, and columns about the Great Outdoors, country living, hunting and fishing, raising kids, praising God, and enjoying life, Robert Hitt Neill turns to telling a real-life Love Story of his 55-year marriage to Betsy, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." Once nominated for Southern Gentleman of the Year, Robert Hitt Neill, like any other Southern Gentleman, admits to having "Married Above Myself" to Betsy,... Read More...
Event with Matthew Ruddick
Thursday, May 11th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Matthew Ruddick signs, FUNKIEST MAN ALIVE. Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues transitioned into R&B, and he was arguably one of the founding fathers of early rock ’n’ roll. In the early 1960s, his songs “The Dog” and “Walking the Dog” made a huge impact on the emerging British “mod” scene, influencing the likes of the Georgie Fame, the Rolling Stones... Read More...
Event with Tom Piazza
Wednesday, May 10th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Tom Piazza signs, THE AUBURN CONFERENCE. It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers’ Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic... Read More...
Event with Lee Durkee
Tuesday, May 9th 2023
Signing at 5pm | Reading at 5:30pm
Lee Durkee signs, STALKING SHAKESPEARE. A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point.... Read More...
Event with Katy Simpson Smith
Thursday, May 4th 2023 | 5:00 at The Eudora Welty House and Garden 
Katy Simpson Smith and Kathryn Savage discuss, THE WEEDS. Co-hosted by The Eudora Welty House and Garden Two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires. A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own.... Read More...
Event with Simon Winchester
Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 | 5:00 
Simon Winchester signs, KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW. From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available ... Read More...
Event with Karin Cecile Davidson
Monday, May 1st 2023 | 5:00pm 
Karin Cecile Davidson signs, THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRST KISSES. In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods of Florida, places where girls and women seek love and belonging, and instead discover relationships as complicated, bewildering, even sorrowful. A New Orleans girl spends a year collecting boyfriends and all the while considers... Read More...
Event with Angela Cherry
Saturday, April 29th 2023 | 12:00pm 
Angela Cherry signs, LIFTING THEM UP. A generation of teachers dedicated their lives to lifting up African American students and embraced the opportunity to give back to their communities. Education was the path to freedom from oppression while segregation was law in the United States. Even after Brown vs. Board of Education, de facto segregation was still the norm, and African American teachers knew that separate would never be equal... Read More...
Event with Michael Farris Smith
Wednesday, April 26th 2023 | 5:00
Michael Farris Smith signs, SALVAGE THIS WORLD. In Michael Farris Smith’s latest gritty epic, a young woman returns home with her child, to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may hold the key to the region’s apocalyptic future. There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the storms and there was no peace in no valley.... Read More...
Event with Devery Anderson
Tuesday, April 25th 2023 | 12:00pm 
Devery Anderson signs, A SLOW CALCULATED LYNCHING. In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kennard (1927–1963), a Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, attempted repeatedly to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College—now the University of Southern Mississippi—in the late 1950s.... Read More...
Event with Brenda Novak
Monday, April 24th 2023 | 5:00 
Brenda Novak in conversation with Erica Spindler for, THE SEASIDE LIBRARY. In this sequel to the highly successful Bookstore on the Beach, this book about books sees three friends reunite in the beach community where they grew up twenty years after a tragic incident changed the course of their lives. Three friends--Ivy, Ariana and Cam--reunite in the touristy beach town where they grew up together, coming together at the local library at which Ivy works. Twenty years ago their town, mostly frequented by tourists in summer but with a small local population, was shattered when a young girl ... Read More...
Event with Thomas Wiley
Saturday, April 22nd 2023 | 12:00pm
Thomas Wiley signs, PUSHMATAHA. PUSHMATAHA—THE FORGOTTEN WARRIOR tells the story of Chief Pushmataha, the Choctaw Nation, and early Mississippi. On the morning of September 27, 1830, on the banks of a small stream in present day Noxubee County, Mississippi, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed which resulted in the transfer of all remaining Choctaw land east of the Mississippi to the United States. Within two years, removal of the Choctaws to their new home in Oklahoma began. Of the sixteen thousand men, women, and children who made the six-hundred-mile journey,... Read More...
Event with Ann Fisher-Wirth
Thursday, April 20th 2023 | 5:00 at The Eudora Welty House and Garden 
Ann Fisher-Wirth signs, PARADISE IS JAGGED. Co-hosted by The Eudora Welty House and Garden In this extraordinary collection, Ann Fisher-Wirth looks levelly at mortality, grief, and memory, and reckons with what it is to be urgently alive, bringing her incisive nuance to subjects ranging from the loss of a beloved sister to Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary to our imperiled natural world to the comforts of marital love. In "Wooden Comb," Fisher-Wirth writes, "I cannot reconcile how the world is sweet, how the world is burning."... Read More...
Event with Robert Mugge
Monday, April 17th 2023 | 5:00pm 
Robert Mugge signs, NOTES FROM THE ROAD. In Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey through American Music, Mugge describes the genesis of his twenty-five key music films, the methods employed in making them, and the experiences shared by him, his crews, and his subjects. This retrospection is organized not so much chronologically as thematically, in order to reveal connective tissue among efforts made over multiple decades.... Read More...
Event with Charles Frazier
in conversation with John Evans Friday, April 14th 2023 | 5:00 
Charles Frazier discusses his new book, THE TRACKERS. From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression. Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office... Read More...
Event with Maryemma Graham
Tuesday, April 11th 2023 | 5:00 
Maryemma Graham signs, THE HOUSE WHERE MY SOUL LIVES. Co-hosted by The Margaret Walker Center This first biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-98) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She promoted the idea of the artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and an institution builder... Read More...
Event with Josh Foreman + Ryan Starrett
Saturday, April 8th 2023 | 12:00 
Josh Foreman + Ryan Starrett sign, HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. The conquistadors staggered through the Delta half-starved, mostly naked, dripping with swamp water. They became the first Europeans to walk in the shade of the Delta's ancient cypress trees, hear the howl of the red wolf, and eat the maize that would give the Delta its signature dish: the hot tamale. Over the centuries, the bountiful soil of the Delta would beckon to those from all over the world. Others came because they had no choice, tilling the land while they gave... Read More...
Event with Jeannette Walls
Friday, April 7th 2023 | 5:00 
Jeannette Walls signs, HANG THE MOON. From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege... Read More...
Event with Angie Thomas
Thursday, April 6th 2023 | 4:30 
Angie Thomas signs, NIC BLAKE AND THE REMARKABLES. Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore. It’s not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool—like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much—like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor.... Read More...
Event with Eli Cranor
Saturday, April 1st 2023 | 1:00 Eli Cranor signs, OZARK DOGS. After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his teenage granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Arkansas junkyard. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but when the girl goes missing, Jeremiah fears the dreaded Ledfords, fanatical white supremacists and notorious meth dealers, have finally come to collect a long-overdue blood debt... Read More...
Event with Wayne Flynt
Tuesday, March 28th 2023 | 5:00 
Wayne Flynt signs, AFTERNOONS WITH HARPER LEE. Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportunity to do just this with Nelle Harper Lee. In a friendship that blossomed over a dozen years starting when Lee relocated back to Alabama after having had a stroke, Flynt and his wife Dartie became regular visitors at the assisted living facility that was Lee’s new home... Read More...
Tuesday, March 7th 2023
Event with Shirley M. Harrington
Thursday, February 23rd | 5:00pm Shirley Harrington signs, Grown @ 13. Grown@13 has thirteen chapters starting with the CEN of Life in chapter one that still needs new planters like you. This book outlines how to make connections, achieve exchanges and completely design lasting networks. The author wrote Grown@13 to help others see themselves as change agents to make better worlds for future generations of young. Reflections at the end of each chapter... Read More...
Event with Luis Mirón
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 | 5:00 
Luis Mirón in conversation with Vince Venturini for, Resisting Racism and Promoting Equity Through Community-Engaged Social Action. This book challenges pre-service and in-service educators to reflect critically on their assumptions and engage in praxis promoting racial and social equity. Grounded in policy contexts, historical understandings, and critical theories, this book describes innovative community-engaged approaches to resisting racism and promoting equity and features reflections and personal narratives from partners in change—including on-the-ground... Read More...
Signing Event with Steven Manheim
Saturday, February 18th 2023 | 11:00am 
Steven Manheim signs, MISSISSIPPI SIGNS. Signs are a nostalgic connection to the past and an important link to Mississippi’s rich history. From every corner of the state, these signs have become part of Mississippi’s landscape. In the decades before mass technology, when commerce was based in local business, signs were an important form of identification and advertising. These signs of businesses, products, and services all tell the story of Mississippi. This book includes signs from all of Mississippi’s regions... Read More...
Event with Sadeqa Johnson
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 | 5:00 
Sadeqa Johnson in conversation with Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels for, THE HOUSE OF EVE. From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and... Read More...
Virtual Event with Tiffany McDaniel
Tuesday, February 14th 2023 | on Facebook LIVE at 3:00pm 
Virtual Event with Tiffany McDaniel for, ON THE SAVAGE SIDE. Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and forge a world all their own... Read More...
Event with Jeff Guinn
Thursday, February 9th 2023 | 5:00 
Jeff Guinn signs, WACO. The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February 28, 1993, raid speak on the record... Read More...
Event with Andrew Maraniss
Wednesday, February 8th 2023 | 5:00 
Andrew Maraniss signs, Inaugural Ballers. Co-hosted by the Mississippi Humanities Council From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of the birth of women’s Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women’s basketball on the map. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown. A League of Their Own meets Miracle in the inspirational true story of the first US Women’s Olympic Basketball team and their unlikely rise to the top... Read More...
Event with Mesha Maren
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | 6:00 
Mesha Maren in conversation with local poet, M.C. Smith for, Perpetual West. Location: End of All Music | 3011 N. State St. The riveting new novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar Run, Perpetual West is a brilliant and evocative story of borders—between countries, between lovers, and between facets of the self. When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry to learn about the place where he was born... Read More...
Event with Gabriella Saab
Friday, February 3rd 2023 | Begins at 4:30 
Gabriella Saab signs, DAUGHTERS OF VICTORY. From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and following two unforgettable women…their fates intertwined by ties of family and interrupted by the tragedy of war. Perfect for readers of Kate Quinn, Pam Jenoff, and Elena Gerokhova.... Read More...
Signing Event with Robert McElvaine
Saturday, January 28th 2023 | 12:00pm 
Robert McElvaine signs, TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'. If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964—or rather, the long 1964, from JFK’s assassination in November 1963 to mid-1965—was the time when the sixties truly arrived. It was then that the United States began a radical shift toward a much more inclusive definition of “American,” with a greater degree of equality and a government actively involved in social and economic improvement.... Read More... |
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